Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 2 | WOMEN are more sensitive than men to these odours , especially in the years between puberty and menopause . |
| 3 | Cost itself was not an insuperable difficulty , though the conditions of steerage travel across the ocean were , especially in the years after the Irish famine , notoriously horrible , if not actually murderous . |
| 4 | This was to find some authoritative expression during the war years themselves and more especially in the years after 1945 , when a general election resulted in the return of the first Labour government with a clear working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 5 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 6 | While their relationship managed to remain friendly they saw each other less and less in the years to come . |
| 7 | Pomerania was still experiencing the flight from the land into the cities over 40 years after its main impact in the rest of Europe , and it was only in the years 1925–33 that the mainly German-speaking Pomeranian towns of Lauenburg , Bütow , Rummelsburg , Neustettin , Belgard , Kolberg , Köslin and Stolp expanded with the absorption of country dwellers . |
| 8 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |
| 9 | Marx himself , as is well known , devoted the greater part of his historical studies to the development of modern capitalism ; his knowledge of some other forms of society was limited , especially in the case of primitive communal society which he began to study systematically only in the years 1879–82 , after the publication of L. H. Morgan 's Ancient Society . |
| 10 | I have demonstrated clearly how we will bring Government borrowing down in the years ahead . |
| 11 | As a result of the Local Government Act 1972 , section 262 , much of this legislation was repealed ( and in some localities replaced ) successively in the years leading up to 1986 . |
| 12 | Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers . |
| 13 | The only flower that did grow in abundance was fireweed ( rosebay willowherb ) , which grew rapidly in the years after the war to cover the bomb sites with its purple flowers and to fill the air with its cottony wisps of seeds . ) |
| 14 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 15 | Altogether , Edward I presented on average twenty-six candidates a year to church livings , more in the years after 1290 . |
| 16 | This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead . |
| 17 | ‘ This decision is merely the formal recognition of an existing relationship that we hope to extend and strengthen further in the years ahead , ’ said IAMCR 's President , Cees J Hamelink . |
| 18 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 19 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 20 | Or would you rather have the security of knowing that , whenever in the years to come your employer may decide , for whatever reason , that you should go , you will be cushioned by a generous notice period which allows you to look for something else without the fear that very shortly the money will be running out ? |
| 21 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 22 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 23 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 24 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 25 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 26 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 27 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 28 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 29 | They had not thought of him often in the years between , but he had never been very far from the borders of their hard and wary lives . |
| 30 | Despite a boom in interest in the early '80s , with one hundred and fifty authorities considering contracting out in the years 1982/83 , only thirty-seven actually did so . |